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snowdropping

originated in Australian prisons. It is a slang word for stealing clothes from other people's clothes lines. Prisoners sometimes did this when needing a quick change of appearance.
The convict entered my neighbour's backyard and snowdropped her clothesline.

To convict "Where did you get those clothes from?"
Convict "I went snowdropping."
snowdropping by Dan DENNIS May 4, 2006
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shopdropping 

The opposite of shoplifting (secretly removing desired merchandise from a store), this act involves ADDING items to a store shelf that you do NOT want, and which you wish to be rid of but prefer not to pay the disposal fees. Can be especially handy for non-violently getting even with the personnel of a certain business establishment who has previously been undeservedly rude/surly to you, since you can gloat about the fact that now THEY will have to pay for the disposal of said unwanted merchandise.
The holier-than-thou clerk at the corner video-game store was really obnoxious to me when I merely asked politely if I could please use the phone to call my parents and let them know I'd be late, so I did a little shopdropping with my obsolete game cartridges.
shopdropping by QuacksO August 18, 2016

shopdropping 

Also known as reverse shoplifting, shopdropping describes the act of sneaking specifically marked items into a shop and placing them on display. This technique can be used for public art, to promote political views or advertise your services. In grocery stores, the labels on canned goods are replaced with art motives. T-Shirts with political messages are smuggled into normal retail outlets and cleaver fitness trainers place their business cards in weight-loss books.
Similar to the way street art stakes a claim to public space for self expression, shopdropping subverts commercial space for artistic use.

snow dropping 

Stealing clothes (often designer labels) from clothes lines.
Nice jeans mate! Yeah, I went snow dropping last night.
snow dropping by LimosineD September 16, 2007

Shopdropping 

Unlike shoplifting, shopdropping is the act of buying, or shoplifting items from a store, and secretly placing them inside a completely different store
Haha i shopdropped some gum last week
They thought i was shoplifting, after i explained what shopdropping was, they told me to do it every day!
Shopdropping by Cake Maniac June 22, 2019

slopdropping

copy-pasting an output from an LLM into a chat without tweaking it or probably even reading it yourself
gina keeps slopdropping in #general and its pissing me off. does she expect us to read it if she clearly doesnt?
slopdropping by slopqueen April 30, 2026